Reply to: Osborne reverses controversial 'pasty tax' as long as takeaway food is cooling

[TimberWolf]

Icecream is not a food - it's a luxury dessert.

HTH

Frozen chips too?

[AtW]

So there's VAT on cold food and hot food, but not on warm food?

Icecream is not a food - it's a luxury dessert.

HTH

[TimberWolf]

I am pretty sure there is VAT on those already.

So there's VAT on cold food and hot food, but not on warm food?

[Old Greg]

So anything in a hot glass cabinet is still subject to VAT?

Except books and children's clothes.

[AtW]

(BTW Zero rate is different from exempt from VAT)

I am very well aware of it Sue.

Will you put the kettle on or shall I?

[SueEllen]

Imagine what outcry would happen if they tried to charge VAT on food?

There is a VAT rate for food stuff however most of it has the rate of zero.

So in theory the government could increase the rate on everything that is zero rated.

However trying this with the pasties and static caravans has shown it's not a good idea.

(BTW Zero rate is different from exempt from VAT)

[AtW]

Or tax really cold things, like ice cream?

I am pretty sure there is VAT on those already.

[TimberWolf]

Reduce VAT rate and put VAT on everything. Simplify and harmonise all taxes. Idiotic ****tard govt.

Or tax really cold things, like ice cream?

[Alf W]

If you exclude Financial Sector intervention (which was a GLOBAL contagion not caused by any specific national government) it looks like this.



The 'massive UK National Debt left by Labour' is a political smokescreen for the Tories as an excuse to cut public services which is their political agenda.

Note - again I will caveat that I accept that public services have a long way to go in increasing efficiency but cutting budgets in itself does not lead to greater efficiency.

Other countries like the USA which have encouraged rather than sought to stifle businesses are leading themselves out of recession better than we are with Laurel and Hardy at the helm.

[Doggy Styles]

Labour run up debt, the other lot have to deal with debt. It was ever thus.

So they reversed some VAT changes? Reducing this deficit is the largest project ever undertaken in this country in peacetime. I challenge anyone to find a project plan of even one-thousandth the size that has not had changes while in progress.

[Alf W]

"Let them eat naturally cooling Greggs savoury pastries"

Come on, even the most ardent Tories amongst you have got to be starting to come around to the idea that Osborne just hasn't got a feckin' clue what he's doing

I'm coming round to the conclusion that neither the Tories nor Labour actually wanted to win the last election to avoid having to deal with the Global Banking contagion fall out. Both parties fielded "can't possibly win" teams and, unfortunately, this is the result.

[AtW]

Or did Greggs paid a higher sum to retract the tax?

To be fair Greggs serves a much more useful social function than Chancellor of the Exchequer.

HTH

P.S. Osborne has shown himself being a total muppet with this tax as well as lacking balls on 50p tax.

[rd409]

So they successfully managed to double cross Samworth Bros.
Ginsters owner's £100,000 to Tories days after pasty tax | This is Cornwall

Or did Greggs paid a higher sum to retract the tax?

[AtW]

Reduce VAT rate and put VAT on everything. Simplify and harmonise all taxes. Idiotic ****tard govt.

Imagine what outcry would happen if they tried to charge VAT on food?

[oscarose]

Simplify and harmonise all taxes. Idiotic ****tard govt.

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